Klima und Mobilität
Strategie Eisenstraße 2030

Strategie Eisenstraße 2030
Gespräch mit Bettina Figl
The green transition comes with costs; but they are well worth it, and they pale in comparison to the costs of inaction. The ever-falling costs of renewables have not eliminated the politics of climate change. But they certainly have made our choices much easier.
It’s easy to see why infrastructure spending would cut emissions, while creating jobs. Carbon taxes appear to do the same.
Gespräch mit Maike Albath
Assessing tariffs based on the carbon content of goods is complicated, but will lead to stronger climate policy and better economic outcomes.
Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Salzburger Nachrichten
Jobs vs. environment is an old trope whose time has passed.
The science is ripe to update estimates of CO2 emissions costs. Calls to scrap the calculation are misguided.
Dürnstein, Niederösterreich
To assess the effectiveness of climate policies, don’t look at today’s CO₂ emissions, instead focus on the trajectory.
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
von Benedikt Narodoslawsky
By Kelly Macnamara & Marlowe Hood/Agence France-Presse
von Norbert Oberndorfer
The American Petroleum Institute is considering endorsing a carbon price. That’s a big shift, but a carbon price alone is not good climate policy.
Im Einfamilienhaus leben zu wollen, ist eine gesellschaftliche und psychologische Entscheidung – mit einer schlechten Klimabilanz. Ein radikales Umdenken ist notwendig.
by Gernot Wagner, David Anthoff, Maureen Cropper, Simon Dietz, Kenneth T. Gillingham, Ben Groom, J. Paul Kelleher, Frances C. Moore, and James H. Stock
The U.S. is updating a number with the potential to push federal regulations into overdrive.